308 THE entomologist's recoed. 



had a brood of Anthrocera trifolii from a ? taken at Tiverton in July^ 

 1900. After hybernation the larvse commenced to feed again, and all 

 but two fed up, and have now emerged. These two mentioned seemed 

 to return almost at once to hybernation, and are still alive, but have not 

 moved or eaten for naonths. Is this usual? — E. F. C. Studd, M.A., 

 Oxton, Exeter. July 11th, 1901. [See British Lepidoptera, i., p. 491, 

 for habits of the larva of this species. — Ed.] 



A whole brood of Anthrocera trifolii that I had from ova in 1892, 

 hybernated for two winters in the larval stage before feeding up. — 

 (Rev.) C. D. Ash, M.A., Skipwith Vicarage, Selby. July 19th, 1901. 



CURRENT NOTES. 



Scudder has once more produced a comprehensive and detailed 

 catalogue entitled "Alphabetical Index to North American Orthoptera, 

 described in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries," published in 

 the Occasional papers of the Boston Natural History Society, vi., 1901. 

 It is not a synonymic list but an index pure and simple, giving a mass 

 of references, a complete bibliography of North American orthopter- 

 ology, and at the end a careful index to specific names. As a catalogue 

 it is of inestimable value to students, who should indeed be grateful, 

 especially as the author remarks in his preface "it has been forty years 

 in the making." 



Mr. F. C. Adams records {Ent. Mo. May.) the capture of three 

 specimens of the dipteron, Lophosia fasciata, Mg., in his garden, at 

 Lyndhurst, on July 22nd, 24th, and August 1st, respectively. This is 

 an addition to the British list. 



Messrs. Cassell and Co., Ltd., have recently published a very useful 

 book "Famihar Butterflies and Moths," by W. F. Kirby, F.L.S., 

 F.E.S. It is excellently got up, the plates (coloured) are, as a rule, 

 exceedingly good, and the letterpress accurate and reliable. It deals 

 chiefly with British species, but several striking and well-known 

 continental species are included. As a popular book it is sure to 

 attract attention and to be favourably received, and it wall undoubtedly 

 prove of great value to any young lepidopterist in whose hands it may 

 be placed. 



After a long period of time, all too long for entomological science, the 

 mantle of the old naturalists — Reaumur, De Geer, Ac- — seems to have 

 fallen on the shoulders of Professor Miall, to whom, and his talented 

 assistants, we are indebted for many of the best recent contributions 

 to entomology, considered as a branch of natural history. As supple- 

 mentary to the account of the larva of Kristalis, in Miall's " Natural 

 History of Aquatic Insects," Wilkinson has published a most 

 interesting account (9 pp. and 2 plates) of "The Pharynx of the 

 Eristal'is larva," explaining in detail how the pharynx can be used as 

 a strainer to separate fine organic particles, serviceable for food, from 

 the water which passes into the beginning of the alimentary canaL 

 We do not know whether this is obtainable from any firm of pub- 

 lishers, our copy having come direct from Mr. Wilkinson, Burnside, 

 Skipton ; but it might well be kept with everyone's copy of the 

 " Natural History of Aquatic Insects " for reference. 



